Eyebrow measuring and marking guide



Jan. 31, 1967 M. J- LESSLIE EYEBROW MEASURING AND MARKING GUIDE Filed May 11, 1964 FIG. 4 INVENTQR.

MADLYNN J. LESSLIE United States Patent Filed May 11, 1964, Ser. No. 366,548 Claims. (Cl. 33-174) The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in personal grooming equipment and more particularly to an eyebrow guide.

The correct grooming and shaping of the eyebrows has an important effect on the overall beauty and contour of the face. The natural hair growth of the eyebrow generally follows the bony structure, or the curved line of the eye socket. It has been found that most people have a disorderly growth of hair, both above and below the natural eyebrow line. This hair is generally removed to give a clean cut attractive appearance.

Great difficulty has previously been encountered in home grooming of the eyebrows due to inexperience of the person improperly contouring the eyebrow line and because it necessitates visual alignment and confirmation of the two eyebrows.

The conventional method of shaping the eyebrows involves tweezing the hair to remove superfluous growth outside of the natural or desired eyebrow line. The supplies necessary for eyebrow shaping as presently carried out are: tissue cream, absorbent cotton, hot water, eyebrow brushes, tweezers, astringent cream, an antiseptic, and an eyebrow pencil. As currently practiced the procedure consists of first placing tissue cream on the brows; saturating a piece of cotton in hot water and placing on the brows for two to three minutes; removing the cotton and excess cream from the brows; tweezing superfluous hair at the root of the nose between the eyebrows; brushing the hair of the brows upwardly and removing the hair from under the eyebrow line; brushing the hairs down and proceeding to remove the hairs from above the natural line; tweezing the hairs out in the direction in which they grow out of the hair follicle with a quick jerking motion; and finally shaping the lower section of first one eye and then the other by alternating between the two and also continuing with the upper section in the same manner for uniform shaping.

In the conventional method, the operator or the individual working on her own eyebrows must use her own vision for judging the distance at the inner and outer edges of the eyebrows. This frequently leads to mishaped eyebrows and generally prevents perfect shaping. The judgment of the operator is therefore the only guide and when mistakes are made the use of an eyebrow pencil must be used to cover defects. This procedure is seldom perfect and bad results, even after covered with an eyebrow pencil may be noticeable upon close inspection. Further, the arch may be too high or too low or too deep from the inner or outer edge.

The present device obviates all of these known defects and further results in considerable savings of time to the operator. The invention is designed for either professional or for home use and requires little training in order to achieve perfect results.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an eyebrow guide which enables the user to easily and accurately measure and mark the eyebrows to secure perfect shaping thereof.

It is a further object of this invention to provide an eyebrow guide which may be used by either a professional beauty operator or an individual at home with complete safety and little training or experience.

Another object of this invention is to provide an eyebrow guide which is readily adjustable for use on different individuals having noticeably varied facial config-urations.

Another important object of this invention is to provide a guide for marking guide lines on an eyebrow to provide a visual means for tweezing superfluous hair.

A still further object of this invention is to provide an eyebrow guide which will give proper indication both as to crown height and inner and outer edge lines for de sired eyebrow shape.

Other objects of the invention are to provide an eyebrow guide for home or professional use, bearing the above objects in mind, which is of simple construction, has a minimum number of parts, is inexpensive to manufacture, and is at all times efficient, safe and accurate in use, and which will reduce time and hence costs of professional beauty shop operation.

For other objects and for a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the eyebrow guide forming the subject matter of the invention showing the level bar removed from the side arm slots;

FIGURE 2 is a partial cross section taken on the line 2-2 of FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 3 is a view of the eyebrow guide in place on the users face showing the utilization of the level bar; and

FIGURE 4 is a view of the eyebrow guide in place showing the three markings for the inner, outer and center line of the eye.

Reference is now made more specifically to the drawings wherein like numerals designate similar parts throughout the several views and wherein the eyebrow guide of the present invention is designated generally at 10.

The eyebrow guide comprises a pair of side arm members 11 and 12 and a pair of base members 13 and 14. The side arm members are each connected to one of the base members by means of a piano hinge 15 or the like, as clearly shown in FIGURE 2. The leafs of the piano hinge may be inserted in slots cut in the bottom edge of each of the arms and held therein by means of a pin member 16.

Of course it is to be understood that any type of hinge means could be utilized and the piano hinge is merely specified as the preferred embodiment.

It is contemplated that the base member and the side arms will each be made of the same material which may be a plastic or stainless steel or any other material that can be readily sterilized and is inexpensive for manufacturing purposes. If the side arms and base member are to be formed of plastic it may be desirable to form the same in one piece with a reduced thickness in the area of joinder to provide an integral or plastic hinge.

For best results it is desirable that the hinge construction provide a fairly tight and adjustable interconnection between the side arms and their respective base members so that the side arms 11 and 12 may be pivoted inwardly or outwardly to any desired degree and will hold their set position unless physically disturbed. The hinge should not be so tight that the side arms can not be readily adjusted by hand.

In order to provide for lateral adjustment of the base members to conform to the width of a wide range of nose contours it is necessary that the base members 13 and 14 be slideably adjustable with respect to each other.

For this purpose the members 13 and 14 are placed in overlying relation and interconnected for movement relative to each other by means of clip band 17. The clip bands 17 are clinched tight enough to permit movement of the base members 13 and 14, yet will hold or maintain the width adjustment unless physically readjusted when desired. It is to be understood of course that many other equivalent adjustment structures may be provided such as telescoping parts or the like.

Since the base member 14 is shown overlying the base member 13, the side arm member 12 is made slightly shorter than the side arm 11 so that the overall length from the base 13 to the tops of both side arms will be the same.

Each of the side arm members is provided adjacent its upper end with a widened portion 18 and 19. Each of the widened portions is formed with lower and upper slots 20, 21, 22 and 23 cut in the rear edge thereof and extending a short distance inwardly. Close inspections of FIG. 1 will clearly show that each of the slots is angled slightly downwardly from the outside toward the inside for a purpose later to be explained.

A narrow strip of foam rubber or similar material such as polyurethane foam is secured to the forward edges of each of the side arms as shown at 24 and 25 in FIGURE 1. These areas serve as marking surfaces and will hold ink or other marking substance for transfer to the face of the person being worked on.

Although it is not necessary for the proper utilization of the device, indicia representing an inch scale may be engraved or imprinted on the inner and outer faces of the side arm members as shown at 26 and 27.

A removable level bar 28 may be placed within either of the two pairs of slots 20, 21, 22 and 23 as later described. It should be noted that the angled faces of the slots permit a horizontal bottom slot surface for reception of the level bar 28 when the side arms are pivoted outwardly.

In use, tissue cream is first placed upon the brows, followed by application of the water saturated piece of cotton. After the cotton and excess cream have been removed the Eyebrow Guide is placed with the side arms in a generally vertical position upon the face so that the base member rests under the nose. The padded portions 24 and 25 of the side arms would be toward the face of the user. The base member width is then adjusted by sliding portions 13 and 14 outwardly or inwardly with respect to each. other until the side arms are in contact with the edges of the nose at the base.

The eyebrow guide is next removed from the face and the level rod 28 is inserted into one of the pairs of slots 21, 20, or 22, 23. The guide is again placed in position on the face as shown in FIGURE 3 and the arms moved inwardly or outwardly, and to the same degree, so that the level rod is at the desired height of the brow arch. A guide line is then drawn either on the underside or on the upper side of the level rod with an eyebrow pencil to designate the correct arch point. As can be seen from FIGURE 3 the brow at the right of the figure is at the correct height, however the brow at the left side of the figure is slightly too high and would have to be trimmed down by tweezing to be equal with the arch of the right brow.

The eyebrow guide is once again removed from the face and, as can be seen in FIGURE 4, a horizontal line indicating the proper arch point of the brow on the left side remains on the face of the user. Several drops of eye marking material such as mascara are applied to the foam pads 24 and 25 of the side arms and the guide is again emplaced with the base member under the nose of the user. Care is taken at this point to insure against the pad members touching the face. The side arms are then moved to the inner corners of the eye as shown in dotted lines at A in FIGURE 4. At the point where the side arms cross the brow, the mascara will be transferred to the eyebrow by slight pressure on the side arms against the face resulting in the line shown.

The side arm members are then pivoted outwardly in the direction of the arrows of FIGURE 1, care being taken to maintain the angles between the side arms and 4. the base member equal, until the side arm members are in the position shown at B in FIGURE 4 wherein the side arms cross the center of the eye proper. Pressure upon the side arms will thereby cause a mark to be made at this point of intersection with the eyebrow.

The side arms are again moved outwardly until they cross the outer corner of the eye at which time pressure is again applied to cause a mark shown at C in FIGURE 4 across the eye-brow.

The eyebrow guide is then finally removed from the face and the hair at the root of the nose is tweezed following the inner edge guide line designated in A of FIG- URE 4. The hair is then brushed up and the superfluous hair is removed from under the eyebrow line, and later brushed down and superfluous hair removed from above the natural line. It is noted that the intersection of the lines formed at B and the horizontal line drawn with pencil along the level rod locates the best point of the eyebrow arch. The guide lines are then followed and the hair tweezed from outside of the outer edge guide line shown at C in FIGURE 4. Finally the brows are brushed in the direction in which the hair grows for a clean cut appearance.

After use the eyebrow guide can easily be placed in hot water or in a dry sterilizer until ready for its next use.

While I have shown and described a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that the drawings and detailed disclosure are to be construed in an illustrative rather than a limiting sense, since various modifications and substitutions of equivalents may be made by those skilled in the art Within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

What I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A guide for marking eyebrow contours comprising, a pair of base members, said members being slideably interengaged for relative lateral movement and adjustment and adapted to be placed beneath the nose of the user, a pair of elongated side arm members, each of said side arm members being pivotally connected to one of said base members, and means on said side arm members adapted to leave a visible mark on the eyebrowarea of the user.

2. A guide as set forth in claim 1, including a piano hinge for pivotally connecting said side arm members,

and said base members.

3. A guide for marking eyebrow contours comprising,

a pair of base members, said members being slideably interengaged for relative lateral move-ment and adjustment and adapted to be placed beneath the nose of the user, a pair of elongated side arm members, hinge means pivotally connecting each of said side arm members to one of said base members, and a porous ink retaining pad. of said side arm members.

guidemark on the eyebrow of the user, elongated side arm members pivotally connected to said base, means on said side arm members adapted to leave a visible mark on the eyebrow of the user, a level bar for guiding a markingpencil, and're tention means on said side arm members holding said bar in a horizontal position relative to said base.

6-. A guide as set forth in claim 5, wherein said retention means comprises a slot in the rear side arm member.

7. A guide as set forth in claim 6', wherein each of said slots is angled downwardly from the outer to the inner face thereof.

8. A guide as set forth in claim 5, wherein said retention means comprises a plurality of slots in the rear edge of each edge of each side ar-m member, alternately usable in pairs for purposes of vertical adjustment.

9. A guide for marking eyebrow contours comprising, a pair of base members, said members being slideably interengaged for relative lateral movement and adjustment and adapted to be placed beneath the nose of the user, a pair of elongated side arm members, hinge means pivotally connecting each of said side arm members to one of said base members, a porous ink retaining pad on the inner edge of each of said side arm members adapted to impress a visible guide mark on the eyebrow area of the user, a level bar for guiding a marking pencil, and retention means on said side arm members holding said bar in a horizontal position relative to said base members.

10. A guide as set forth in claim 9, and further ineluding distance scale indicia on each of said side arm members.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS RICHARD A. GAUDET, Primary Examiner.

R. L. FRINKS, Assistant Examiner. 

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